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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Then and now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis leewa guest host the Mark Simon Show on seven
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  Speaker 1: ten WOO and this I final weeks up stooding for
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simon. Nobody better in the business. What a smooth operator.
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  Speaker 1: Think of that song by Shada nineteen eighty four. Think
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  Speaker 1: of that in nineteen eighty four. It's going to come
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  Speaker 1: back when I talk about the two books being written
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  Speaker 1: by Bernard about Bernard Gets that are being published at
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  Speaker 1: the same time the beginning of this year, forty one
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  Speaker 1: years since the Subway Gumman. So we're going to connect
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  Speaker 1: all the dots. But thanks to Mark Simon for giving
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  Speaker 1: me this opportunity, Tom Cuddy, the program director, who I've
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  Speaker 1: known for years from his stage over at WPLJ, and
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  Speaker 1: of course the iHeart group of station's largest in the
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  Speaker 1: nation doesn't get any better than this. This is like
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  Speaker 1: a second birthday present for me, because I got the
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  Speaker 1: Christmas present which was substituting the first week. This will
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  Speaker 1: be my Birthday present March twenty six aries fire. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't go over under, I go right through. And
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  Speaker 1: who would have ever thought that I would have made
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  Speaker 1: it to seventy two years old. So I got my
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  Speaker 1: Christmas present substituting for Marquere and I'm getting my pre
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  Speaker 1: birthday present. And then yesterday, because it's always busy in
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  Speaker 1: my life, huge article came out. It had been done
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago when it came out now and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, my phone was like blowing up from Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, everybody out there on the West coast Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: that I've known over the years, where I've met over
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  Speaker 1: the years, was calling me about this article the Hollywood Reporter.
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  Speaker 1: That's the bible for their business out there. So whether
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  Speaker 1: it's movies, TV, whether it's streaming music, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: that's their bible. And the article was Curtis Leewoo just
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  Speaker 1: wants you to know, wants to know where are you from?
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  Speaker 1: Because that's what I always asked, right is he? I
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  Speaker 1: asked you where you're from? From? The Bronxes and No Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: What high school do you go to? I always have
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  Speaker 1: these series of questions because it tells me a lot
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  Speaker 1: about who you are, where you're from, what your roots are.
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  Speaker 1: And so it is a huge article and I got
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  Speaker 1: this one call from a guy. Now, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: he's interested in Curtius Slawak, can I do this? Can
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  Speaker 1: I do that? Can you know they're all they're all
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  Speaker 1: schmoozing you. Uh, they're pulling your chain and chewing your shorts.
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, hey, you remember me. Remember I grew
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  Speaker 1: up in benson Hurst. Yeah, I remember you. Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: I got I got ideas of what we can do.
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  Speaker 1: I said, really, really, okay, Uh, could you share a
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  Speaker 1: few with me? And he goes on and on things
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  Speaker 1: he'd never be able to do in a month of Sundays.
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  Speaker 1: But he's schnoring me. He snoring me, okay. And I
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  Speaker 1: know this guy because in the midst of this mayoral
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  Speaker 1: election he became a Cuomo sexual. He donated a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money from Hollywood to Cuomo and he called me
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  Speaker 1: a clown. He thinks I'm gonna forget that, right. So
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  Speaker 1: he's going on and on. He's on the roll, doing
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  Speaker 1: this typical routine they do out in Hollywood, And I said,
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  Speaker 1: cause you hold a second, I gotta I gotta take
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  Speaker 1: a call from mister click. And I hung up the
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  Speaker 1: phone on him. Guy has no idea what it is,
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  Speaker 1: so he must have assumed that there was a break.
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  Speaker 1: He calls me right back, and I said, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: had a great conversation with mister Click. I'm sorry it
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  Speaker 1: took me a little bit of time to get back
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  Speaker 1: to your call, but I I want you to be
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  Speaker 1: able to talk to mister Click now. And then hung
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  Speaker 1: up on him. You think that's do not You think
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  Speaker 1: he finally understood that you don't play with Curtis Lee right,
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  Speaker 1: You don't stroke me and think I'm not gonna remember.
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  Speaker 1: I don't forgive and I don't forget. Oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I hope Greg Kelly is listening over at WABC because
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  Speaker 1: his show prep was always marked simone the best in
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  Speaker 1: the business, and he's sort of been a dollar short
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  Speaker 1: in a day late, not having a routine to be
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  Speaker 1: able to pick pocket from. But that's okay. Why wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: you listen to mark someone the best in the business.
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  Speaker 1: I certainly have over the years. But let's talk about yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: because it was a Hollywood day. My wife, Nancy, as
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  Speaker 1: you know animal welfare activists, was quest for him by
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  Speaker 1: the loss of Bridgiet Buddo. Now, obviously my wife is
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  Speaker 1: a millennial. She didn't know Bridge Bardeaux from her liberated
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  Speaker 1: sex bomb era of movies that she appeared in, especially
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  Speaker 1: the ones that were made with Roger Vidim, who then
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  Speaker 1: went on to marry years later Jane Fonda, Remember Barbarella. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: but no, let's stick to Bridget Bardeus that one film
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  Speaker 1: and God Created Woman. Right now, these are all in France,
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  Speaker 1: so you gotta have subtitles to them, right God Created Woman.
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  Speaker 1: It opens up with her sun bathing in the news.
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  Speaker 1: This is nineteen fifty six. Think about that, nineteen fifty six,
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  Speaker 1: and later she emerges from the sea in a clinging
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  Speaker 1: wet dress. I'll never forget that scene, and at the
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  Speaker 1: top of her career, with the paparazzi chasing her all over.
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  Speaker 1: Remember this is the era Marilyn Monroe, so many other
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  Speaker 1: sex bombs, but there was a certain sub a fair
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  Speaker 1: about Bishard Bardell. So she's at the can Film Festival
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  Speaker 1: right there off the Mediterranean. She's in demand and at
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  Speaker 1: the top of her movie making career. She walks away
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  Speaker 1: from it. She goes to Sanchope and she sets up
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  Speaker 1: an animal welfare sanctuary. She goes out to the Arctic
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  Speaker 1: and she confronts these barbarians who are clubbing baby seals
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  Speaker 1: to death. Confronts them. Yeah, I'm sure some of them
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  Speaker 1: are like Brigard Bardeaux my day. Who would ever think
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  Speaker 1: you would see Bridget Bardeaux at the North Pole.
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  Speaker 2: But she was a fighter for animal welfare, and she
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  Speaker 2: consistently railed against laboratory experiments against animals which are being
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  Speaker 2: filtered out in the Trump administration in the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 1: Also and other federal agencies. Imagine it's still and you know,
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  Speaker 1: testing on beagles like that that U discraciata Dr Fauci,
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  Speaker 1: testing on beagles, sending them off to Tunisia, third world country,
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  Speaker 1: and then putting cones around their heads and having sand
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  Speaker 1: fleas eat the skin off their heads. For what purposes
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  Speaker 1: we spent money on that? It was never explained, doctor Fauci.
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  Speaker 1: You will burn in hell for that and many other things.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, he's a boy from Bench and her
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  Speaker 1: screw up pharmacy. Uh then went to Regis, the most
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  Speaker 1: prestigious of Jesuit high schools, better than the one I
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  Speaker 1: went to Brooklyn Prep. But he was a disgrace for
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  Speaker 1: many many reasons. All right, let's stick with it with
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  Speaker 1: Bridget Bartell. And then she says, I don't care about
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  Speaker 1: my past glory. I am taking every franc, every euro
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  Speaker 1: that I have, and I'm investing it in adopting unwanted
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  Speaker 1: animal snowkill shelters Spain and neutering. Now, her politics was
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  Speaker 1: extreme right. She was a follower of lapenn She hated Muslims.
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  Speaker 1: She was cited for that many times for hate speech.
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  Speaker 1: But yesterday, for those in the animal welfare community, it
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  Speaker 1: was a reminder how so many who have done so
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  Speaker 1: well in Hollywood in a movie making and in TV
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  Speaker 1: production walked away or in their final years bequeathed all
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  Speaker 1: their money to animal welfare. Now, the complete opposite of
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  Speaker 1: Richard Bardot at that time was Dori Stay. She was
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  Speaker 1: America's sweetheart. Remember Doris Stay. I remember seeing her in
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  Speaker 1: Pillow Talk I think it was nineteen sixty with Rock Hudson.
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  Speaker 1: Who know that Rock Hudson was gay, but he was.
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  Speaker 1: These were great movies. But she was America's sweetheart. And
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  Speaker 1: then while doing a film in about nineteen seventy one,
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  Speaker 1: she saw some people abusing animals and immediately I think
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  Speaker 1: she was doing the film The Man who Knew Too
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  Speaker 1: Much nineteen seventy one, she established actors and others for animals.
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  Speaker 1: No de fur, no defer, and who joined the Mary
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Moore, Angie Dickenson, Jane Meadows, and of course Bob
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  Speaker 1: Barker the price is right. If he saw you warring
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  Speaker 1: wearing a fur, he would have punched your schnaz right
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  Speaker 1: down your throat. And this became her passion. She lived
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  Speaker 1: by Karmel by the Sea, you know Clint Eastwood where
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  Speaker 1: he became mayor Karmel by the Sea, a lifelong Republican,
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  Speaker 1: died at ninety seven, bequeathed all of her wealth to
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  Speaker 1: her at almost sanctuary. And then, of course there was
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  Speaker 1: Betty White. Betty White died at about a hundred. I
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  Speaker 1: never forget seeing her on phil Donague in the afternoons
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  Speaker 1: and she was talking about her animal welfare fund and
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  Speaker 1: somebody was giving her a hard time. Yeah, look Betty White,
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  Speaker 1: Golden Girls Hot in Cleveland, the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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  Speaker 1: Betty White an institution, bequeathed all her money to her
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  Speaker 1: animal wildlife fund. And then, oh yeah, for the guys
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  Speaker 1: out there, there's Wakie Phoenix. Remember that great movie, the
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  Speaker 1: first one, the Joker, not not the second one with
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  Speaker 1: Oh god, that was not a good one. No, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: the second movie could not touch the first one that
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  Speaker 1: was classic. So here's Joaquin Phoenix. He's receiving the Academy award. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's speaking gibberish up there, who knew where his mind was,
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  Speaker 1: like so many of these actors and actresses. And the
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  Speaker 1: very next day he's out rescuing as she was known
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  Speaker 1: to do animals in factory farms. He would actually go there.
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  Speaker 1: He would say to those in charge of the farmers,
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  Speaker 1: how much you want for that mother cow? How much
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  Speaker 1: you want for that new born calf? Spending his wealth
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  Speaker 1: to do that great actor? So many others, and think
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  Speaker 1: of it, people make fun of you. Would you make
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  Speaker 1: fun of Doris Day? Would you make fun of Betty White? Well,
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  Speaker 1: they do make fun of Joaquin Phoenix. They say he
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  Speaker 1: is looney Kazuni from parts on own great actor, no
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  Speaker 1: doubt about it. And Bridget Bardeux, who when they said
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  Speaker 1: are you a recluse, she said, no, I'm not a recluse.
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  Speaker 1: I would rather deal with animals than with people. And
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  Speaker 1: then the most recent maybe we'll get to it in
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  Speaker 1: this week when I'm substituting for Mark Simoon pigeons, which
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  Speaker 1: in my mind street pigeons should be the official bird
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  Speaker 1: of New York City, right, Oh man, you get such battles.
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  Speaker 1: Some people say they're nothing more than rats with wings.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they put up spikes on their windows cells. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want pigeons coming on your window cells. Put
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  Speaker 1: up plastic owls. That's like a natural nemesis to them.
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  Speaker 1: It sort of like when you go to a cornfield
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  Speaker 1: and they put up scarecrows and keeps the crows who
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  Speaker 1: have very smart. Pigeons very smart, but they will not
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  Speaker 1: land on a window cell or any area that has
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  Speaker 1: a plastic owl in. And boy, tremendous controversy raging because
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  Speaker 1: another great actress actually came to the support the pigeons,
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  Speaker 1: the actress Sarah Paulson. She did a podcast in what
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  Speaker 1: she was saying, we shouldn't be torturing the street pigeons.
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  Speaker 1: They're a part of our New York City heritage and legacy,
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  Speaker 1: and they are and they have performed so many services
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  Speaker 1: for us over the decades, without which we might have
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  Speaker 1: suffered enormously. And I grew up with pigeons on the
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  Speaker 1: roof of my grandfather and grandmother's house in Kannarci. My
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  Speaker 1: uncle Vincenz used to have a pigeon coop. There were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pigeon coops back then, so I nurtured them,
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  Speaker 1: I fed them, I trained them Boston Bulldies and Homer's,
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  Speaker 1: so I have a direct infinity for pigeons. But boy,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about mixing ammonian bleach and my own wife.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so proud of her, Nancy, who stood up to
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  Speaker 1: a comrade build a blasio back then, the part time mayor,
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  Speaker 1: the dope from Park Slope, when he said, if you
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  Speaker 1: feed pigeons, we are gonna find you and my wife, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: in classic Clint Eastwood terminology, turned to build a blasio
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  Speaker 1: on the steps of city Hall when he was mayor
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately for eight years, and said make my day as
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  Speaker 1: she and others began feeding the pigeons right there. Oh
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  Speaker 1: you can see all that. Just go to act Curtis Sliwer.
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  Speaker 1: It's all posted there. But what a day following the
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Reporter, I mean, dissing and dismissing somebody of great renown.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta know you don't play with Curtis Sliwa, You don't
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  Speaker 1: play with me. Coming up next, so we got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about two books that are being published by about
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  Speaker 1: Bernard Gatz forty one years later coming out at the
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  Speaker 1: same time by the same publishing house, and I guarantee
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  Speaker 1: you because of that, it'll probably be a movie made
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  Speaker 1: about what occurred forty one years ago in December of
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  Speaker 1: the subways of New York City that I spend most
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